A ética do bem viver em Epicteto

Abstract

Philosophy as a way of life is a matter of ancient philosophical schools, both Greek and Roman. To this end, several philosophical schools have developed discourses to clarify and support philosophical practice. This is the central idea of Pierre Hadot, a French philosopher who takes up the question of philosophy as a way of life and from which we set out to develop arguments towards an ethic of good living. This work of dissertation will develop a specific ethic of good living of the Greek-Roman philosopher Epictetus, who lived in the first century of our era. The search for an ideal of life had as fundamental topics the virtues (aretai), happiness (eudaimonia), the serene flow of life (euroia), the imperturbation of the soul (ataraxia). However, the euroia will be considered here as the fundamental goal of the ethics of well-being, which is developed by the exercise of the virtues. To accomplish this, the ethics of good living will show Epictetus's theory of action and the fundamental structures for it to be realized. Within the theory of action proairesis is a fundamental point where reason and the differentiation between that which is in our power (eph'hêmin) of that which is not in our power (úk eph'hêmin) are of paramount importance for the development of a therapy of yourself toward euroia.